Ivete Lucas

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Ivete Lucas

Born May 5, 1983 (age 43)

Ivete Lucas was born in Brazil, started her career in Mexico and now lives in the United States. Her short documentary, The Send-Off, co-directed with her partner Patrick Bresnan, premiered at Sundance in 2016 and won jury awards at SXSW, AFI Fest and the San Francisco International Film Festival. She is the producer and editor of the multiple award-winning short, The Rabbit Hunt (2017), directed …

Known For

First They Came for My CollegeFirst They Came for My College · 2026
First They Came for My College
2026
MovieDocumentary
When the Governor of Florida transforms a beloved public honors college in a political coup, students and professors confront a new reality: their campus is ground zero in a growing nation-wide assault on academic freedom.
Naked GardensNaked Gardens · 2024
Naked Gardens
2024
MovieDocumentary
A visually stunning narrative documentary, NAKED GARDENS immerses audiences in the complex, unseen world of a family nudist resort in the Florida Everglades. Filmed over one season at this lush tropical campsite, the film follows the stories of individuals drawn to an unusual community, which promises both non-conformist values and, more importantly for some, a cheap place to live. As aging owner Morley and his residents prepare for the largest gathering of nudists in the US, the Mid-Winter Naturist Festival, they are faced with challenges both as a community and as individuals.
The ContestantThe Contestant · 2025
The Contestant
2025
MovieDocumentary
In 1996, a 19-year-old Patrick Bresnan enters a local television contest for the chance to visit the set of Baywatch, then the world's most popular TV show. Nearly three decades later, he revisits the home-video footage of his unlikely adventure, offering a personal glimpse into 1990s television and fan culture.
PahokeePahokee · 2019
Pahokee
★ 6.02019
MovieDocumentary
In a small agricultural town in the Florida Everglades, hopes for the future are concentrated on the youth. Four teens face heartbreak and celebrate in the rituals of an extraordinary senior year.
Happiness Is a JourneyHappiness Is a Journey · 2021
Happiness Is a Journey
★ 5.02021
MovieDocumentary
A glimpse into the real lives of warehouse workers on the desolate streets of Austin, Texas, in this dual-screen documentary.
Ashland
Nov 14, 2026
Ashland · 2026
Ashland
2026
MovieDocumentary
Shot on S16mm over the course of 8 years, ASHLAND examines the hopes and dreams of young people, horse whisperers, Indigenous elders, and mystics, all living today in the sacred lands of Eastern Montana.
The Curse and the JubileeThe Curse and the Jubilee · 2018
The Curse and the Jubilee
2018
MovieDocumentary
An intimate, arresting portrait of the cursed Appalachian mining town of Ivanhoe, Virginia. The film captures the town as it prepares for the annual Jubilee, a wild 4th of July celebration where families and neighbors let loose and triumph over daily hardships, industrial abandonment, and race.
Skip DaySkip Day · 2018
Skip Day
★ 5.12018
MovieDocumentary
For seniors in Pahokee, a small, mainly African-American industrial town on Florida's Lake Okeechoboee, the Monday after prom is 'Skip Day.' Dozens of the students, miss their lessons, driving 60 miles to hang out and ponder their futures on the windy dunes of the Atlantic shoreline. The film intimately observes the shared joys of communal activity and extravagant display which bind these boisterous teenagers in their rites of passage towards an uncertain adulthood.

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